Xymon (previously called Hobbit) is a network- and applications-
monitoring system designed for use in large-scale networks. But it will
also work just fine on a small network with just a few nodes. It is
low-overhead and high-performance, with an easy to use web front-end.
It handles monitoring of network services, and through client packages
it can also be used to monitor server- specific items. Alerts can
trigger when monitoring detects a problem, resulting in e-mails or
calls to your pager or mobile phone.

Xymon has a great deal of inspiration from the non-free Big Brother
package, but does not include any Big Brother code.

/usr/share/doc/xymon/README

README file for Xymon
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What is it ?
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Xymon is a system for monitoring your network servers and
applications. It is heavily inspired by the Big Brother
tool, but is a complete re-implementation with a lot of added
functionality and performance improvements. A slightly more
detailed rationale for Xymon is in the docs/about.html file.
NOTE: On Nov 10 2008, Hobbit w
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/usr/share/doc/xymon/README.Debian

Hobbit for Debian
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This Debian package follows pretty closely the original debianization shipped
by upstream. The main differences are
- 'hobbit' depends on 'hobbit-client' rather than conflicting with it; it uses
the client package for monitoring the local host. (The client package's init
script/daemon is disabled when the server is installed.)
- Additional tests to run ca
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/usr/share/hobbit/gifs/README

These GIF's were collected from various GPL- and public-domain
archives around the Internet. To the
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